a multiplayer game of parenting and civilization building
You are not logged in.
Pages: 1
long
I've always thought of the game as a simulator of real life, where yes there are griefers (criminals,) wars, property, etc. Even if these things aren't inherently fun, I think they add to the whole of a game where civilization rises and falls at an extremely accelerated rate you can watch with your own eyes. I guess you could call me a roleplayer.
long
Hm... I can see that yet again there seems to be a rift between players of think of the game as, well, a game, and players who think of the game as a social experiment and roleplaying experience.
First of all, I can see where you are coming from with the finite map limiting the potential player base, but I just don't see that as a very big problem. The map is still very large and can hold the current player base, and many more people too. It's just that the players need to learn to adapt, which I see as great! This is a fluctuating experience in which you need to keep up with the latest changes.
And the griefer problem shouldn't fall on Jason's shoulders, that's ridiculous! The system is never going to be perfect, and it shouldn't be! In real life, there's no supernatural system literally preventing people from murdering or destroying property. Instead, there is a government and police force, and that's what players should create. Removing weapons that can kill is unrealistic and is a bad idea.
The problem with Jason not listening to the player base: That is once again ridiculous! This is HIS GAME, not yours, and that means he can do whatever he wants with it. If that means doing something that will make you unhappy, so be it.
The choice screen idea is a bad idea. It would cause too many eves. Just because Jason doesn't add every idea the community requests doesn't mean he's a bad person. Lots of developers do that, in fact, the community should be thankful for how open he is, lots of devs aren't transparent at all, and don't listen to the community in the slightest. Meanwhile, Jason gives us an update almost every week and posts a lot on these forums. Property fences and swords aren't a bad idea, as I've explained above it's a simulation of the real world where these are real things. It doesn't mean jack that they aren't useful to linages, they're realistic.
I stopped playing around the language learning update. No reason in particular, I just got bored with the game. Now I come back and there seems to be a large portion of the community who is filled with hate for the new updates and particularly Jason for some reason. Why? What happened?
I read up on all the new updates and they all seem like great additions to me. Almost all of the steam reviews are just insulting Jason for updating his own game with his own vision for it in mind. They are all insulting him as if he's an evil, horrible monster who's out to get the players and the game is a big scam. This is obviously overblown and not very helpful.
What are the flaws with the game in the current state? I want a civil explanation from someone who isn't a crybaby just hopping on the bandwagon.
They seem less like griefers and more like weird roleplayers
I was born to a small but advanced for their generation family, the Moist family. My mother acted innocently and friendly enough. Weirdly she told me to be sad and only sad, "Be sad... Not happy" so I repeatedly pressed my sad hotkey. I'm really curious about the context of that.
Then she said, "Woah... perv," in response to some guy next to her doing nothing, I think. She walked over to someone else and said, "Our king is a perv," Understandably, all the guy said in response was, "Huh?" I don't think we even had a king.
Afterward, she walked up to two guys farming and said something along the lines of, "Let's bring her," The two guys said, "Sure," and we began to walk south. We walked way south, beyond where anyone else in our family could find us. I asked, "Where are we going?" She told me we were going to see the King, and I accepted that answer.
Then my mother dropped me. The two men took out knives and both stabbed me, "Haha, double-teamed," One of them said. The other told me, "We are wiping out your family." They both had devious expressions on their faces. I died.
Later, I looked back on my family tree, and it turns out the two guys were related to me, which confuses me. They were trying to wipe out my family but they were part of my family, so were they trying to wipe their own family out? Then, it turns out the two men killed my mother too. At first, I thought they were ambushing my mother, but she dropped me and said, "We're here," and she had a devious expression on her face as I was being stabbed, which makes me think she was with them. But then why would they stab her? Her last words were, "Ok."
Then, the two men died a minute later. Their last words were, "Sorry man," and, "Me too," One starved, the other was killed by a grizzly bear.
What I believe happened was the two men stood there and let themselves die. But why? If they were trying to wipe out their family, surely they would go back to camp to kill more people, right?
Pages: 1